Out in the countryside stands a sweet shop run by the Shikada family for nine generations: Shikada Dagashi, a small business selling traditional Japanese candy. However, despite his father's pleas, Kokonotsu Shikada, an aspiring manga artist, adamantly refuses to inherit the family business.

However, this may start to change with the arrival of the eccentric Hotaru Shidare. Hotaru is in search of Kokonotsu's father, with the goal of bringing him back to work for her family's company, Shidare Corporation, a world famous sweets manufacturer. Although the senior Shikada initially refuses, he states that he will change his mind on one condition: if Hotaru can convince Kokonotsu to take over the family shop. And so begins Hotaru's mission to enlighten the boy on the true joy of delicious and nostalgic dagashi!

season 1 aired in 2016 animated by Feel, season 2 has been moved to Tezuka Productions and cut down to 12-minute episodes for the Winter 2018 season.
I like it a lot ^-^

Welp, I done goofed. I was thinking of the Shimoneta voice actress who died in 2015.
I mixed the shows up because she played Anna in that show, who looks a lot like Hotaro
Also damn, she died in 2015. I feel like I was reading about it yesterday